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1966 f Popnlation Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 Gty Limits 8,256 riili fltrur* for Grooter Kings Mountain is deitTsd fioin lbs 19S5 Kin^s Mountain city dirsctory census. Tbs city iissiis figure is from tbs United States census of INS. VOL 77 No. 35 Established 1889 Kings Mountdin's Reliable Newspaper Pages Today Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September I, 1966 Seventy-Seventh Year PRICE TEN CENfS DepartmentApprovesCommunityDevelopmentPlan As Five More Are Reported GRADUATE — Corl Moss, deon of students at King's college in Charlotte, has received bis master's degree. Moss Wins Master's Degree Carl B. Moss, a 1950 graduate of the Kings Mountain high school, has been ;aw«rded a,^ Master of* Arts from Ap- palachian'f^ate Teachers, Col lege. ’Tlje ^gree w^confe||ed at the recent summer aommeiP^ ment. * 1 - Mr. Moss is presently serving as Dean of Students at King’s College, Charlotte, a position which he has held since ISSS-^He also serves as Head of the Ac counting Department at the col lege. Mr. Moss ds a member of the Pi Tau Nu honorary coii'-xerce fraternity and was the fotmder of the King’s College Chapter of tiie Phi Theta Pi international com merce fraternity. He was trea surer of the senior class at the Bowling Green College where he ejarned a B.S. degree in accoimt- ing. Mr. Moss 'has also served as director and vdce-president of the North Carolina Association of Business Colleges and is a mem ber of the North Carolina Per sonnel and Guidance Association and the National Blusinees Edu cation Assocftition, Mr Moss is married to former Jean Owens, of Kings Mountain, and they have three children. They reside at 6338 Rosecrest Drive, Charlotte. His parents, Mr. and Mrs M. B. Moss, were form erly of kings Mountain but now reside at Graham. Padgett Was Silver Wings SACRAMENTO. CALIF.—Sec ond Lieutenant Philip G. Pad- igett, Jr., son of Doctor and Mrs. Philip G. Padgett Sr of 605 N. Piedmont Ave., Kings Mountain, N, C., has been awarded silver wings (Upon graduation from U. S. Air Force Navigator trainiM at Mather APB, Calif. Lieutenant Padgett, a 1959 graduate of Kings Mountain high school, received a B.A. degree in 1963 Ifrom Hampden - Sydney (Va.) College. A member of Theta Chi, tie was commissioned upon comipletion of Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Tex. Vandalism Mark Of Break-Ins; Cash Take Poor City police had on Saturday answered the eighth call in a senes of thefts and break-ins which began here last Sunday Most recent break-ins were re ported by three elementary schools, a church, and a doctor’s clinic. Meantime, First Wesleyan Methodist church on Waco road is advertising a $100 reward for information leading to the ar rest and conviction of the culprit or culprits who carted off the church safe from the pastor’s study. The heavy, U. S. Army model contained chur^ valua bles, including insurance papers, and about $25 in cjish, according to the pastor, Rev. John Harris. Sometime Saturday police say vandals entered St. Matthew’s Lutheran church on Piedmont Avenue and wrote on walls in the rest rooms, marked up the building with soap, and filled up balloons with water, then buret them, poiuing the water on the floors. North school, East school, West school and McGill Clinic were all broken fiato <m Thnrs- dajr night. *.. At East ^iKuul, ObGcer J. D. Barrett sai^glass was broken on the south sidb of the building and entry was gained into the principal’s office where |0 in silver and keys to the cold drink box were stolen Two pairs of scissors were broken by the cul prits who apparently tried to pry open steel cabinets. Eight half^nts of sweet milk were consunRjd by the apparent ly hungry rotors. At West school Officer L. D. Beattie saw scissors again were employed by culprits who open ed the principal’s office and left with $34.60 in a First Union Na tional bank bag. A piece of the scissor was left in the lock of the door. Officers Beattie and Barrett reported that the lock on an off ice door wais broken at North school and glass was broken from a liaichroom door but thieves apparently did not enter the lunchroom. Missing from; the office were two flashlights and two screw drivers with black rubber handles. A panel from the back door was smashsed at McGill Clinic but thieves were unsuccessful in opening the safe, police said. Paneling behind the safe in the reception room was broken, ac cording to police. A 50-cent piece was missing from an office drawer. City police were continuing their investigation of two more break-ins in this area early last Continued On Page 8 Hearing Friday On Petition To Enter School Sixteen East Kings Mountain families are seeking a Superior Court order to permit their chil- dm to attend Kings Mountain district schools for another tenn, in spite of the fact they reside in the Gaston county school district. Majority of the families, lii;w- ever, live within the bounds of the City of Kings , Mountain Hearing has been set for 9:30^ ‘Friday morning before Judge G. L. Houk, of Franklin, in Gaston Superior Court. Specifioally, the group, repre senting some 28 pupils, ask an order which w.7uld he effective until full hearing of the ca.nr plaint can be held. If granted, it would permit enrollment of the pupils in the Kings Mountain district for the present term. Attorney for the petitioners is Henry M. Whitesides, of Gas tonia. Vi* f , Mrs. Chapman Grover Teacher Mrs. Gloria Nolen Chapman, of Forest City, has been elected a faculty member for the Grover school, succeeding a temporary teacher. Mrs, Chapman’s election re duces "the number of tefmporary teachers in the 10-plant system, Superinteiidnt B N. -Bams aaid. AWARDED PLAQUE Ralph Ware, city parking meter officer, has been award ed a plaque by Rockweel Man- ufa^inr Company. Pitts burgh, Pa., Ifor successful com pletion of a course In mainte nance and repair of Rockwell’s BsrkO'Meters. HERE THURSDAY — James Boyce Garland of Gastonio, Rotary District Governor, will pay his official visit to the Kings Mountain club Thurs day. Rotary Governor Here Thursday Kings Mountaki will welcome on ’Thursday the governor of this Rotaly district, James Boyce Gar- Goscpnle. He" wiU oOdress me local Rotary ClubV’one of 41 in his district, and will confer with Wilson Griffin, president of the local Rotary Club, and other club officers to obtain informa- Uon op the club’s plans for its service' activities and to offer suggestions on Rotary adminis trative matters. ’The civic club meets at 12:15 at the Country Club. Mr. Garland is one of 278 Ro tary governors in all parts of the world who are serving as the sole representative of Rotary In ternational In districts compris ed of member clubs. Each dis trict leader is responsible for supervising the clubs in his area. More than 12,400 Rotary clubs in 133 countries are super vised by Rotary governors. A member and past president of the Rotary club of Gastonia, Mr. Garland is an attorney by profession. He was elected to of fice at the Rotary convention in Denver, Colorado, last June, and will serve until next June “While in Kings Mountain,” according to Wilson Griffin, local Rotary olub president, “the gov ernor of our district will talk with us about possible growth of membership and the likeli hood of forming additional Ro tary clubs in nearby communi ties. His visit will also give us a broader understanding of the world-wide Rotary organization that today embraces nearly 600,- 000 men of practically all na- • Continued On Page 8 Schools Faculty Integrated by 12 By MAR'nN HARMON Integrated as to race for the first time last yeai'. Kings Moun tain schools were further inte grated this year, with teaching faculties integrated for the first time. Ten Negro teachers are facul ty members in formerly all-white ■schools, while two Csulcasian teachers are part-tim^ teachers in Coimipact and Davidson schools. Of the iwt NejtfS.^ tcac^rs, seven^ are faculty members *at Kings Mountain high school, one is at Central, two at tVest. Only three of the ten plants remain unintegrated as to pupils. 'They are Bethware, all-Vi^itej, Com- pact elementary aneP T^avidson,, all-Negro. Jim Patterson's Bites Conducted Funeral rites for James R, Pat terson, 89, retired farmer, were held Saturday at 3 p.m. from the Chapel of Harris Funeral Home, interment following in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Patterson died Friday morning in the Kings Mountain hospital after illness of several weeks and declining health for sometime. A native of Cleveland County, he was son of the late Dixon Car and Artie Hambright Patterson. He was an elder in Shiloh Pres byterian church of Grover and a charter member of Stateline Lodge AF & AM. He is survived by his sister, Mrs. H, W. Ramscur of Bessemer City, and several nieces and nephews. Deacons and elders of the church served as pallbearers. 44 M «% GRADUATES OF SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL NURSING — Pictured above arg members of the 16th graduating class of the Shelby Program of Practical Nurse Education of Cleveland Unit of Gaston College. Since its origin in 1951, the school has graduated 119 practical nurses. Summer com mencement exercises were held recently. Front row, from left. Miss Carroll Jones. Shelby; Miss Saundra Clark, Motganton; Miss Connie Propst, Maiden; Miss Rebecca Payne, Kings Mountain; Miss Ruby Stewart, Newton. Second row, from left, Miss Louise Lemick, Bessemer City; Mrs. Ruth Franklin, Cliffside; Mrs. Aileen Wright. Shelby; Mrs. Idella Degree, Waco; Mrs. Thelma Flack, Hickory; and Miss Joy Hall, Murphy. School Enrollment Off 173; W-Plant Total Is Now 4096 layceBs To Stage Beauty Pageant As Feature Of Battle Celebration One of the highlights of the 186th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Kings Mountain will be a Kings Mountain beau ty contest, conducted by Kings Mountain Jaycees, when a repre sentative of the area will be chosen for the 1967 North Caro lina Beauty contest, forerunner to the Miss America pageant. The event will be a feature of October 6. Herman Greene, Jaycee presi dent, announced that Nannette Minor, of Charlotte, current Miss North Carolina, will crown the Kings Mountain winner, and will be a guest during the remainder of Mountaineer Days through Saturday, October 8. President Greene says that in vitation has been extended Mbs South Carolina to participate in the anniversary parade on Octo ber 8 and other culminating events of the celebration Meantime, Oralrman Mauney of the celebration Ifin- ance oomimlttee reported TVie*- day that half tji $6000 oriet»ih> tion has been pledged. He alM told mekniben of the comniittee he is confident the remainder will be in hand or pledged with within the next ten days. J Lee Roberts, member of the finance committee and chairman of the Mountaineer Days lapel emblem sales, reported initial sales as good and considerable interest evidenced in the con tests, both for organizations and individuals, whereby cash prizes await top salesmen. Prizes of $50 await both the organization and individual re cording top sales of the lapel em- bletn, with two prizes of $25 for second place, and two prizes of $10 for mird place. Mr, Roberts said, “I am en couraging the salesmen to urge that tbs purchasers not only buy hut WBur the emblems as a means of advertising the colebra- Uon." John Henry Moss, ex lirman of the celebra- littaa jloid work is pro- ths anniversary pa ining a speaker the Plonk's Condition Said Worsened ’The condition of C. S. Plonk, Sr., well-known Kings Mountain citizen, worsened* Wednesday, his son Dr. George W. Plonk said late in the day. Mr. Plonk, prominent farmer and trader, underwent an cinor- gency operation for removal of his gall bladder at Kings Moun tain hospital early Saturday morning. No Shorts Edict At West School Joe Neisler, Jr., was buying some long pants for his son J. A. (Rick) Neisler, III, fourth grader at West school. The purchase was due to school edict, which Father Joe thought strange, if not unusual. Mrs. Neisler checked with Prindpal David Wyatt, who had a reason. Merely being fair, he said, adding that, past Grade 3, girl students were not permitted to don shorts to school but must wear a dreas, or skirt-and- blouse. If the girls were not permitted shorts, neither should be the lads. TA* PRE.PATMENTS Tax pre-payments at noon Wednesday totaled $41,708.77, according to report of City Oterk-Treaaurer Joe H. McDan- fed, Jn I WINS MASTER'S — Geroldine Jenkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlee Jenkins of 223 Watterson street, received her master's degree in elementary education in the summer pro gram at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Miss Jenkins is working in the pub lic school system in Danville, Va. __ Smart Assumes Manager Post Tom Smart of Charlotte as sumed management duties Wed nesday at Kings Mountain Coun try club. Mr. Smart comes to Kings Mountain from Charlotte Elks Lodge which he managed 2\<a yeais_ He had previously owned and operated a finance company in Charlotte after coimiing to North Carolina in 1946 from 'Denver, Colorado, where he was associated with Ford Motor Com pany. He is a native of Florida, re lates he moved to North Carolina after becoming acquainted with the state through Tar Heel friends with whom he served in the Army. Mrs. Smart is the former Kath leen Hurdle of Newell They are parents of three children: Tom Smart, Jr., 18; Karen, 17; and Cathy Smart, age 15. In Charlotte the Smarts are members of Caramel Road Pres byterian church. Mr. Smart is a Legionnaire and member of the Charlotte VFW Post. R. J. Forrest, who formerly owned and operated B & B Res taurant here, completed his du ties as club manager on Tuesday. Dropouts Said i Major Beason | For Decline By MARTIN HARMON Fifth day enrollment in the 10- plant Kings Mountain district | school system dropped 173 from: the total on the fifth schiol day last year. The total Wednesday was 4096, on the fifth day tlie previous year 4269. Superintendent B. N. Barnes said he liad not yet sufficiently analyzed the reports to deter mine reasons for the drop, but cited t!ie loss of some attending Kings Mountain schools last year t'3 Gaston county scliools and an unusual incidence of dropouts at Kings Mountain liigh school last year as contributing factors. Seventy of the 173 were "lost” in the systems first three grades. Th 41'f’pout incidence is reflect ed in'the fact that, while high school enrollment dropped a to tal !of 59. the 270 fifth-day jun iors of last year, dwindled to 229 — down 41 - on W'ednesday Lalst year’s opening high school en rollment was 2S0. Wednesday was only 229, in spite of consol idation of Compact high sclio d with 177 students last year with Kings Mountain high school. Eleventh grade comparisons further supported the dropout theory, where 270 were in scliool last year, only 243 Wednesday, a- Continued On Page 8 '' GRADUATE — Miss Janice Ann Bridges was groduoted Friday from Charlotte Presby terian Hospital School of Nurs ing. Miss Bridges Is Graduate Miss Janice Ann Bridges, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Clyde M. Bridges of 1107 Gold St. Ex tension, was graduated Friday from Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in exercises held at David Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte Continued iOn Page 8 laycees 2, Lions 1, Donkeys Win As Allen, Carrigan Are Injured The Kings Mountain Jaycees edged the iLions Club 2-1 in the donkey baseball gaime Tuesday night at City Stadium as both teams tasted a little bit of defeat. Actually the donkc.vs came out on top but the two cliubs- along with the Optimist Club which handled the conces.sions—took in $476 In gross proceeds. The Lions pocketed $413..5(), the Jaycees $113.75 and the Opti mists made $50 during tl\e two-- hour battle. While it was all in fun and it didn’t really matter which club won or lost, one member of each team took it pretty hard. Bill Carrigan of the Jaycees had to be wheeled from the field on a stretcher when he was thrown off a donkey’s b^ck and Larry Allen of the Lions sustain ed a minor foot injury when a donkey stepped on his right foot. Howard Bryant, chairman of Workable Plan Implementation - . Underway Here By MAR’nN HARMON The Department of Housing and Urban Development haa ap proved Kings Mountain’s work able program for community im prove rent. Representative Basil L. Whitener telegraphed Mayor John Henry Moss last Friday. Aim of the plan is use of pri vate and public resources to both eliminate and prevent slums and blight. The plan is approved for a one- year period and is renewable, provided the city show's evidence of progress in implementing the plan. Implementation work is al ready underway in three particu lar areas: 1) Public housing and slum re moval, with committees already nai.Ted on both housing and an other on minority housing, engi neering firms being interviewed, and a survey made mapping sub standard and derelict housing, as well as housing needing major and minor repairs. Under this program, a local Public Hoiuslng Authority would incorporate as a non-profit North Carolina firm, would issue bonds, 100 percent guaranteed by the federal gov ernment, to cover the entire pro ject. 2) Central Business District re newal. This committee has been at work for tmonths, has retain ed an engineering firm, and ha» invited a visit by Bruce Wedge, of Atlanta, regional administrat or of the Department of H^iisii^ and Urban Development for n preliminary review of tb* appli cation. In this program, the fed eral government supplies up to three-fourths the fimds for the approved project 3) Community facilities build ing. Gary D. Hicks, commxi^y planning division of the state oartTcnt of Conservation and Development, expects to submR a report by October 15 on Kingb Miountain’s needs for a building of this kind, to include recrea tional facilities, offices for var ious agencies, and other feature^ In this program, the fede|lr share is two-thirds of the cost of the approved project. Mayor Moss said he was “high ly elated” that the workable plan has been approved, aiH>rt>v- al being necessary before any of the particular projects can be forwarded. ‘‘This can mean much to Kings Mountain, enabling us to improve housing, provide recreatidn and other needed functions and facil ities long in advance of what would be impossible within the limits of our present resources,** Mayor Moss commented. He praised the work of “many Kings Mountain citizens’* and the engineering retainee. Traffic Associates, of Hickory, which re- siflted in approval of th coin- munity development plan. the Lions Donkeyball Committee, hit the nail on the head when he said that “Allen’s pride was hurt worse than his foot.” At the same time Allen was taking a spill from the donkey’s back he ripped his pants and won a big roar from the crowd Fred Withers, player-coach of the Lions, scored his team’s only run. Withers is a former base ball coach at Kings Mountain -high school Ted Ledford of Kings Moun tain Farm Center was well pleas ed with the donkey ballgame. He sold $20 worth of donkey feed but didn't get to see the gairre. Ray Black of Radio Station WKMT, who announced the game, called a time out and ad vised the crowd to be sure and take notice becaluse “it’s the last time they will see. such an array of jackasses assembled at one placa.” Stetty Wins Ford Convertible Gene Steffy, Kings Mountain World War II veteran, won a Ford Galaxy ccmvertlUe In a drawing Sunday at the Drum and Bugle Corps finals of the Natiional American Legion con vention. Mr. Steffy was winnef of one of four given by Seagrams Post 658, of California, Seagrams Post 807, of Illinois, and Seagrams Post 1283 of New York. 'The good fortitme of Legion naire Steffy also meant good fortune for his home Otis D. Green Post 155, American Le gion, which will receive a gift of $250. Legionnaire Dan O’Sullivan, who did not identify himself as to post or function at the conven tion called Mr. Steffy to infonn him he had been lucky. Details of the drawing appear ing in the July issue of the Ameb lean legion Maigazine invited L,e- gionnaires to register for the drawing by filling out, <dlpping and mailing a coupon. 'There was no entry fee AUCTION SALK Women of Dixon Presbyteri an church will conduct an m tion sale for benefit of building fund of Dixon Pm terlan church during ^ ular circle meeting night at the hoiat < Quay HainhrighW Qwi
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